Sug Woo Shin


Sug Woo Shin is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley working in number theory and the Langlands program.

Career

Shin graduated from Seoul National University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics in 2000. He received his PhD in mathematics from Harvard University in 2007 under the supervision of Richard Taylor.
Shin was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 2007 to 2008, a Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago from 2008 to 2010, and again a member at the Institute for Advanced Study from 2010 to 2011. He was an assistant professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2011 to 2014. Since 2014, Shin has been an associate professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Shin is a visiting KIAS scholar at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study and a visiting associate member of the Pohang Mathematics Institute.

Research

In 2011, Michael Harris and Shin resolved the dependencies on improved forms of the Arthur–Selberg trace formula in the conditional proofs of generalizations of the Sato–Tate conjecture by Harris and Barnet-Lamb–Geraghty–Harris–Taylor.

Awards

Shin received a Sloan Fellowship in 2013.

Selected publications